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020			_a9780143124870 _cpbk
020			_a9780670026630 _chc
035			_a(DE-599)BVBBV041364172
035			_a(OCoLC)869850823
040			_aDE-604 _bger _erakwb _cBVB
049			_aDE-473
084			_aHU 9800 _2rvk
100	1		_aOzeki, Ruth L. _d1956- _4aut
240	0	0	_aA Tale for the Time Being
245	0	0	_aA Tale for the Time Being _b[a novel] _cRuth Ozeki
250			_a1. publ.
260			_aNew York, NY _bPenguin Books _c2013
300			_a422 S.
520			_aIn Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox--possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, this is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
653			_aTeenage Girls
653			_aBuddhist nuns
653			_aWomen authors
942			_cBK _2ddc
999			_c9354 _d9354